Hosted at BICA in collaboration with BICA School and Civic Arts (a project by teaching artist Robin Lee Jordan), Arts for Something! is an interdisciplinary program for young and emerging artists (ages 14–19) exploring the intersection of art and civic engagement.

Over the course of the series, participants will build creative skills—like screen-printing, zine-making, sewing, literary arts, and specialized visual arts—while learning how these tools can be used to support civic initiatives such as social justice, activism, and local community needs.

Young artists who commit to all eight sessions (with up to two excused absences) will have the opportunity to create and present a civic arts–inspired project in any medium. These projects will be featured in a collaborative zine and shared during a final exhibition and celebration in June.

Workshops take place the first Saturday of every month, October through May (skipping January), from 12–2 PM. 

November Workshop:

divided loyalties: speculative narratives across space/time

Description: 

This generative creative writing workshop will draw from the group’s collective experience to explore new connections between space/times and incongruities in what we think of as past, present, and future. Participants will leave with the start of a new speculative narrative or worldbuilding project. No creative writing or time travel experience necessary.

At this session, young artists/zine-makers Zeki and Michael will also be leading us in a zine-making warm-up!

About Kit: 

Kit Xiong is a speculative fiction writer and critic broadly interested in placemaking and migration, post-industrial ecologies, and science fictions in techno-capitalist development. A 2025 AICA-USA Art Critic Fellow and a member of BICA School, their work has appeared in AICA-USA Magazine, Cornelia, and Sine Theta Magazine. They guest curated BICA's 2025 summer group show, Do not go out of the door.